"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
April 3, 2023 | Issue #14
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April 2023 Featured Agency Highlight
Solano Family & Children's Services
Community based public and private Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) support the needs of working moms and dads with access to child care and other supports earmarked to lift families up from poverty. During the pandemic, these programs have distributed emergency essential worker child care vouchers, family child care and center stipends & PPE, diapers, food and clothing. Throughout California, these APPs may also support parental choice to CalWORKs Stages 2 & 3, preschool and center-based programs, general child care, After School Education and Safety (ASES), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Family Child Care Home Education Networks (FCCHENs), transportation, behavioral & mental health services, respite, regional centers, health and safety, 21st Century, resource libraries, and Trustline.
Solano Family & Children's Services "is proud to share our agency Impact Report for 2022. Our State Legislators and the Governor held true to their commitment to provide additional supports to families and child care providers coming out of the pandemic and working to rebuild their lives and livelihood. By the end of 2022, our agency grew to 79 employees who work every day, committed to our mission, vision, and values that support parents/guardians, their children, and child care providers in Solano County. Our 2022 Impact Report represents the critical services that families, child care providers, and the community need to thrive."

Get to know them and the full scope of their work with their 2022 Impact Report highlighting how they are supporting the needs of family child care providers and families in Solano County.
Network and CAPPA 2023 Hybrid Joint Conference!
2023 Conference
Save the Date and join your peers for an amazing 2023 Joint Conference! The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network and the California Alternative Payment Program Association are excited to announce that we heard you and we will offer a joint conference in 2023 that has both an in-person and virtual option this Fall!

We are working with the Conference Committee to offer thoughtful, user-friendly options with keynote presentations, workshops, networking opportunities, and connection time with vendors. For those that are ready to connect in-person, we will once again be at the Double Tree Hotel in Sacramento. And for those that are not quite ready for in-person or like the conveniences that come with virtual attendance, we’ll have an option that is similar to the last three years. Regardless of the option that works best for your agency, we look forward to connecting, supporting and partnering with you!

Registration information, along with a preliminary conference program, will be released soon! At that time, online registration will be open, and attendees will be able to select from the in-person conference or the virtual conference. Those that register for the in-person option will also receive access to the virtual conference. Due to the cost of the in-person option, we are limiting the registration to 250. When registration opens, all agencies will have an opportunity to register a limited number of people by a specific deadline. If spaces remain after the deadline they will be made available to interested agencies.  
In-Person Conference Details
Date:    September 27 – 29, 2023
Time:   Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. to Friday at Noon
Location: Double Tree Hotel
                 2001 Point West Way
                 Sacramento, CA 95815
Cost:         Member Agencies, 3or more staff – $450
                 Member Agencies – $475
                 Non-Member Agencies - $650
Virtual Conference Details
Date: October 4 – 5, 2023
Time: Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. to Thursday at 4:30p.m.
Cost:   Member Agencies, 5 or more staff - $285
             Member Agencies - $309
             Non-Member Agencies - $435
 
We hope you can join us!

 

Members of the Legislature discussed the impact lack of access to child care is having on our poorest of families, which are largely headed up by single moms and predominantly women of color, resulting in their loss of employment.  
 
Our campaign goes beyond this exciting event. The ultimate goal of #ChildCareforCA is to get a critical mass of signed letters to Assembly Members and Senators so they know that this issue is important to Californians and to raise awareness among Californians about the child care crisis.

We will need your help to amplify the campaign, share the video, our new shareable two-minute animated film, which is housed at our campaign microsite and get letters signed. A recording of the live launch is hosted on CAPPA's website. We encourage you to use the social media toolkit to share with your networks through social media posts, links, emailing your mailing lists, and more.
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD

On Thursday, April 13, at 9:30 am, the Senate Budget Subcommittee 3 on Health and Human Services's hearing will include child welfare services, and child care and development.

The agenda is still being finalized, please check back here for the link over the next few weeks.

Prior to the hearing, CAPPA will support the field with talking point and social media handles and suggested remarks.

To provide remote public comment/testimony, you will be able to call into the hearing. The phone number and access code are TBD. Please make sure when you dial in, immediately press 1-0 # until you are in queue and assigned a line number.

For those looking to provide public comment/testimony in person, the hearing will be in the Capitol Swing Space at 1021 O Street, Room 1200, Sacramento, CA 95814.
2023 State Budget
To help support you staying on top of the 2023-24 budget process and materials connected to the budget, CAPPA is hosting all of the materials in one place.

Click here to access CAPPA's Budget Page. NOTE: CAPPA has created an Excel document to help you track budget actions. Click here.

Upcoming Budget Hearings:


Follow the above links to find more details about each hearing. If you would like to provide input or testify at a budget hearing, please check on the respective Senate and Assembly Committee pages to see if they allow for remote testimony.
California State Legislature:
IMPORTANT DATES, DEADLINES & BILLS

Upcoming dates and deadlines to be aware:
  • March 30 - Spring Recess

Informational Hearings:
None

If you would like to provide input or testify at a hearing, please check on the respective Senate and Assembly Committee pages to see if they allow for remote testimony.

Click here to find a full list of Senate Committee chairs and assignments. The Assembly Committee chairs and leadership can be found here, and the committee assignments can be viewed using this link.

2023 State Legislation:
See below a short list of bills of interest that have been introduced this legislative year. You can follow these bills and more on CAPPA's on our website. For a comprehensive list of bills of interest, visit CAPPA's State Legislation page.

Child Care & Early Learning

Health / Nutrition
  • AB 85 (Weber) Social determinants of health: screening and outreach.

Housing/Homelessness
Other

To view all the bills that the Assembly and Senate introduced in the past week, click here.
BILL OF THE WEEK

AB 679 (Wicks) Family childcare homes: meals: reimbursement rates. 
(click on the image below to access both pages of the fact sheet)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Assemblymember Wicks represents the East Bay in the California State Assembly. First elected in 2018 and now re-elected in 2022, the Assembly 14th district spans the communities of Oakland to Richmond, and includes the City of Berkeley.

As Chair of the Assembly Housing Committee, Asm. Wicks champions the solutions needed to solve California's housing and homelessness crisis.

Asm. Wicks’ legislative work also focuses heavily on expanding our social safety net, championing the rights of women and working families, protecting consumers, and reducing gun violence in our communities.

Click here to read Assemblymember Wicks's full biography.

If you would like to contact the Assemblymember's office, you can do so here. To schedule a meeting with the Assemblymember or her staff, submit a request via this link.
Updates From Our Partners
Child Care Fact of the Week

Question: Is there a law that notes the timeframe that family child care providers and centers are to be reimbursed?

Answer: Yes. Contractors must support timely reimbursement to providers within 21 calendar days of the receipt of a complete record or invoice for services.

Background & references:
·        WIC 10267.5
·        5 CCR 18226 – Plan for Provider Payments
·        45 CFR 98.45(l)(1)(ii) – (l) The Lead Agency shall demonstrate in the Plan that it has established payment practices applicable to all CCDF child care providers that:
(1) Ensure timeliness of payment by either:
(i) Paying prospectively prior to the delivery of services; or
(ii) Paying within no more than 21 calendar days of the receipt of a complete invoice for services.
Question: Are the waiver of family fees permanent?

Answer: No. The final 2022-23 Budget Act only extended the waiver of family fees, enacted during the pandemic, until June 30, 2023. Unless there is another extension of family fees included in the 2023-24 Budget Act or legislation is enacted to waive family fees beginning on July 1, 2023, then families will have to begin paying a family fee beginning on July 1, 2023.
Federal Update
Federal Update
 
Congress has headed home for their 2-week Easter recess. When Congress returns, they will be busy continuing their work on FY24 appropriations. The recent ECE community letter ended with 44 national early education advocacy signatories.  
 
Update: Appropriations Letters (found here - thanks, FFYF)
  • Bipartisan Preschool Development Grants B-5 – Reps. Castro and Fitzpatrick – 94 signers
  • Dem CCDBG – Rep. Bonamici – 145 signers
  • GOP CCDBG – Rep. Owens – 35 signers
  • Dem Head Start – Rep. Hayes – 166 signers
  • GOP Head Start – Rep. Stauber - 24 signers
 
As we previously reported, the GOP budget leaders in the US House are continuing to press for significant cuts to domestic program investments. In an effort to force negotiations, Republicans are considering holding off on raising the debt ceiling until their demands for budgetary reductions are satisfied, which would prohibit the Treasury from paying the country's obligations. This would result in a reckless and unprecedented default on our national debt, which would further destabilize the US economy and drastically alter the lives of everyone, including the families, early educators, and children that are already facing economic challenges. In addition to holding the country's economy hostage, these cuts would also seriously jeopardize the welfare of families, early educators, and children by forcing damaging reductions in the services and supports that so many rely on. One recent analysis found that proposed cuts could force more than 100,000 children to lose child care subsidies and more than 170,000 children to lose Head Start and Early Head Start services. More: House Republican Cuts Increase Costs for Hardworking Families | House Committee on Appropriations
 
 
These threats are incredibly harmful: either the House’s proposed cuts significantly undermine the supports and services women, families, and children rely on, or the House refuses to pass a clean debt limit increase, upheaving the economy. 
 
Urge your Members of Congress to build on the bipartisan progress made in the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus by investing in the programs the child care sector and families need to thrive, using the President’s budget as a starting point. 
 
Take Action:
 
At NWLC, we’re continuing to educate Congressional staff on the need for additional investment in child care and early learning programs through the aforementioned annual appropriations process, especially as states are running out of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds, with some expiring in September of this year. We are also closely tracking the debt ceiling negotiations and potential cuts to federal child care and early learning programs.
 
Please feel welcome to reach out with any questions or opportunities for collaboration as we begin the 118th Congress.
 
  • White House Early Childhood Updates + Care Workers Recognition Month Proclamation
 
From the White House: 
 
Honoring Child Care Workers: Today, the President signed a proclamation declaring April Care Workers Recognition Month. The proclamation recognizes the work of both child care and long-term care workers, and honors their extraordinary contributions to help raise our children, assist seniors as they age with dignity, and support people with disabilities–giving families peace of mind and making it possible for millions of Americans to earn a paycheck while their loved ones are safe and secure. With respect to child care, it highlights President Biden’s ongoing commitment to secure the resources necessary to support early educators, including through compensation that reflects the value they provide families and communities.
 
Improving the Physical Environment in Early Childhood Facilities: Earlier this week, the Department of Health & Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency released a joint letter highlighting resources available to state and local governments for infrastructure and federal program funding to test for and remediate lead in drinking water in early care and education programs. The letter highlights the availability of investments through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve the nation's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, which represent the most significant federal investment in water to date and is catalyzing the elimination of lead in America’s drinking water.
 
Expanding Access to Early Childhood for our Nation’s Servicemembers: The Secretary of Defense recently announced a push for improving family supports for service members and DOD civilian employees through their Taking Care of Our People Initiative. As a part of this effort, DOD plans to provide service members access to dependent care flexible spending accounts, reinforce the expansion of military parental leave, and strengthen investments in child development facilities on-base. To support early educators, DOD also plans to standardize a minimum 50% discount for child care workers’ own children as a way to bolster recruitment and retention. 
 
Expanding Access to Child care for Workers Delivering on Major Federal Projects: Earlier this week, the Department of Commerce released its workforce guide to help employers seeking CHIPS in Science Act funds meet the child care requirement. Critically, the guide encourages employers to build off of the local infrastructure of early childhood by partnering with child care organizations, providers, and families to assess current child care capacity and gaps in their community (e.g., availability of services, workforce needs, family preferences). The guide discusses several resources available, including partnering with state and local governments, federal programs for employer-sponsored child care, and community organizations that can help connect providers to employees. More: U.S. issuing new childcare guidance for semiconductor chips subsidy program | Reuters
 
Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Settings: The Department of Education released a letter calling for the end of corporal punishment in all educational settings, including public preschool settings. In the 2017-2018 school year, nearly 900 preschool students were subjected to corporal punishment. Secretary Cardona calls on all state and local leaders to move away from this harmful practice and toward creating learning environments that are safe and supportive for all students. 
 
  •  Issue Brief and Talking Points - Raising Revenues: Why Taxes Matter for Care Advocates
 
From the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC):
 
NWLC has two new resources connecting child care to the importance of raising revenues and rejecting austerity:
 
 
Hopefully, these resources are helpful to your work as we work to prevent cuts to early childhood programs and build support for the long-term investments in care we need (and the revenues to support them). If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Amy Matsui ([email protected]) or Elyssa Koidin Schmier ([email protected]) 
 
  • Fact Sheet - Solutions to the Early Educator Workforce Crisis: How Legislators Can Make a Difference for Kids, Families, and Educators
 
From the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE):
CSCCE has a newly released fact sheet, Solutions to the Early Educator Workforce Crisis: How Legislators Can Make a Difference for Kids, Families, and Educators. The fact sheet summarizes key issues facing the ECE workforce, includes examples of policy solutions currently underway across states, and concludes with four action steps. Please pass along the fact sheet to any elected officials, partners, or advocates that could leverage this resource to advance policies supporting the ECE workforce.
How Legislators Can Make a Difference for Kids, Families, and Educators details five facts that every state legislator should know about the ECE system and features real-life state-based solutions. It also includes four action steps that legislators can take, including: 
  • Increasing investments for ECE compensation 
  • Enacting legislation for compensation reform 
  • Partnering with the executive branch and 
  • Convening to urge others to understand why supporting the ECE workforce is critical to a robust child care system.
 
Read and share with your elected officials, partners, and/or fellow advocates
Also, listen in on NPR's Here and Now show, which features three early educators and CSCCE Executive Director Lea Austin in a discussion about the child care crisis. 
 
  • Survey Report - The Childcare Barrier: The Impacts of Inaccessible and Costly Childcare for Student Parents
 
From Generation Hope:
 
We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest report, “The Child Care Barrier: The Impacts of Inaccessible and Costly Child Care for Student Parents,” which explores the complicated waters student parents navigate in order to pursue higher education while simultaneously caring for themselves and their families. Our findings clearly demonstrate the unaddressed caregiving needs and important experiences of student parents, especially those in the D.C. region.
 
Major Findings:
  • Teen parents juggle incredible responsibilities simultaneously. Nearly three-quarters of respondents provide 30+ hours of care for their child/ren each week while attending school.
  • An overwhelming majority of young student parents say their child care options are limited. Ninety-two percent of respondents either did not have access to or were unaware of on-campus child care options. Nearly 80% of respondents wished their campuses did more to support their child care needs.
  • A majority of young student parents use various supports to provide for their families on low incomes. Over 80% of respondents reported an annual household income below $30,000, and 86% were receiving some form of public aid. Nearly three-quarters relied on informal and/or unpaid child care (i.e. family, friends, neighbors, public school programming, etc.).
  • This survey also brings to the forefront key factors that reinforce disparities in child care support and post-secondary attainment for Black and Latinx students, families, and communities. Ninety-five percent of our respondents are students of color, and the significant barriers that they face in accessing consistent, quality child care mirror the experiences of families of color nationwide.
 
Spread the word! Please use this social media toolkit to quickly and easily share the report with your networks. 
 
  • Issue Brief - 3 Ways States Can Expand and Sustain the Infrastructure Workforce by Meeting Child Care Needs
 
From the Center for American Progress (CAP):
This week, the Center for American Progress’ Early Childhood Policy and Inclusive Growth teams released an issue brief by Policy Analyst Maureen Coffey and Senior Fellow Marina Zhavoronkova titled, “3 Ways States Can Expand and Sustain the Infrastructure Workforce by Meeting Child Care Needs.”  
 
This brief explores the benefits of increased access to child care for the recruitment, retention, and diversification of the infrastructure and industrial labor workforce, and outlines three strategies to meet child care needs for workers in training with eligible Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funds: 
  • Individual vouchers or subsidies for child care  
  • Contracts with providers for designated slots aligned to infrastructure industry needs 
  • A navigator role to support infrastructure workers finding child care 
 
Coffey and Zhavoronkova explain how using IIJA funds to support the above activities states will grow and diversify their training pipelines to create stronger workforces and deliver on their commitments to constituents. 
 
  •  Report & Webinar - Preschool in a Mixed Delivery System
 
From the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER):
 
Please see a new report written by a team at National Institute for Early Education Research with support from LPI, State Preschool in a Mixed Delivery System: Lessons From Five States. In the report, researchers take an in-depth look at how policymakers in Alabama, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and West Virginia have worked to expand public preschool while addressing these challenges. While there may be more than one path, based on the analysis, researchers have identified six actions states should consider taking to foster a strong mixed delivery system with consistent quality. 
 
In an upcoming related webinar (April 19 from 1-2:30 ET), Improving Access to High-Quality Preschool: Lessons from Five State Mixed Delivery Systems, presenters—including state administrators and local providers—will further explore the mixed delivery systems of each of the five states highlighted in the report and identify key decision points states face such as how to approach governance and administration to support program quality.  
 
Please feel free to share this report and upcoming webinar with your networks using this social media toolkit.
 
  • Celebrate - Elizabeth Burke Bryant is USA Today's Women of the Year
 
From Rhode Island KIDS COUNT:
 
We are thrilled to share that the longtime Executive Director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, Elizabeth Burke Bryant, was honored as USA TODAY's Women of the Year Rhode Island honoree. The honorees are women who lift up people in their communities and across the country, making a difference in the lives of many. This acknowledgement came a few days after Rhode Island KIDS COUNT board and staff hosted a beautiful celebration in honor of Elizabeth’s legacy of child advocacy in Rhode Island. We are so proud of our EBB!

  • Child Care and Early Learning in the News
 
HHS Launches the First National Early Care and Education Workforce Center

The first-of-its-kind National Early Care and Education Workforce Center is being launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The National Early Care and Education Workforce Center’s research and technical assistance activities will work together to build a career pipeline for the early care and education workforce, including support for pursuing credentials and degrees while maintaining the sector’s diversity and identifying and implementing sustainable ways to increase workforce compensation and benefits.

The Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a cooperative agreement to establish and operate the National Early Care and Education Workforce Center for the next 5 years to Child Trends, the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, BUILD Initiative, ZERO TO THREE, the University of Massachusetts–Boston, and the University of Delaware.

Read more here.

President Biden has long believed that we need to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, not the top down. Over the past two years, in the face of significant challenges, that economic strategy has produced historic progress for the American people.

Under the President’s leadership, the economy has added more than 12 million jobs—more jobs in two years than any president has created in a four-year term—including 800,000 manufacturing jobs. The unemployment rate has fallen to 3.4 percent, the lowest in 54 years. The Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are near record lows...

Expands Access to Affordable, High-Quality Early Child Care and Learning. Too many families across America cannot access high-quality, affordable child care—preventing parents from working and holding back our entire economy. The President’s Budget enables states to increase child care options for more than 16 million young children and lowers costs so that parents can afford to send their children to high-quality child care. The Budget also funds a Federal-State partnership that provides high-quality, universal, free preschool to support healthy child development and ensure children enter kindergarten ready to succeed.
Most reviewed federal bills this week:
  1. H.R.5 [118th] Parents Bill of Rights Act
  2. S.686 [118th] RESTRICT Act
  3. H.R.2617 [117th] Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
  4. H.R.5376 [117th] Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
  5. H.R.25 [118th] FairTax Act of 2023
  6. S.596 [117th] Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2021
  7. S.623 [117th] Sunshine Protection Act of 2021
  8. H.R.82 [118th] Social Security Fairness Act of 2023
  9. H.R.4728 [117th] Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act
  10. H.J.Res.30 [118th] Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights”.
Social Media Spotlight
Field Highlights

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and CHIPS and Science Act are poised to employ millions of American workers in high-quality jobs. This suite of transformative economic legislation can change the face of the American workforce by dramatically expanding the presence of women and people of color in industries—such as construction, clean energy, and manufacturing—where they are substantially underrepresented. However, industries benefiting from these historic investments face hiring challenges, with many expressing concern about whether there will be enough workers to deliver on these economic promises. At the same time, some states have explored an underutilized recruitment and retention tool: child care for workers in training.

Click here to view the full article.

Nationwide, around 5 million children under age 6 live with a parent who works a nontraditional-hours schedule, which we define as any hours outside of 7 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday. However, very little is known about the supply of licensed nontraditional-hours child care. To better understand the supply of nontraditional-hours child care providers, we examined their characteristics and the neighborhoods in which they operate in six states (Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin). These states participated in our Child Care Data Center (CCDC), a tool which allows users to view data stories on topics such as child care accessibility and affordability.

Click here to view the full article.
CDSS & CDE Information & Updates

The transition of child care and development programs from the California Department of Education (CDE) to the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) supports the State’s approach to strengthening our child care and development system to be more comprehensive, high-quality, and affordable.

This quarter, CDSS worked to maximize access to child care that is trauma-informed and free of hate, racism, and bias. The Department launched two free online courses on implicit bias and trauma-informed practices. CDSS has also started to plan for the development and governance of the Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS).

Next quarter, the department looks forward to partnering with CCPU to work toward the development of a new MOU and awarding the second round of CCTR expansion funding. CDSS will also submit an official letter requesting pre-approval from the Federal government’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for California to move to an alternative methodology to inform state child care subsidy rates.

To read the full report, click here.
To read the executive summary, click here.

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Child Care and Development Division (CCDD) has recently posted the following document on its Internet website: CCB 23-03 Program Self-Evaluation for Fiscal Year 2022-2023.

The purpose of this Child Care Bulletin is to provide guidance and information to child care and development contractors regarding the background and allocation amounts for the deduction of dues and political contributions on behalf of the Child Care Providers United (CCPU) union.

To read the entire CCB document, click here.
RELEASED March 14, 2023: CCB 23-06: IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSEMBLY BILL (AB) 321 (CHAPTER 903, STATUTES OF 2022): CHANGE IN CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT PRIORITY ORDER FOR CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES IN WHICH THE PRIMARY HOME LANGUAGE IS A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Child Care and Development Division (CCDD) has recently posted the following document on its Internet website: CCB 23-06: Implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 321.

The purpose of this Child Care Bulletin (CCB) is to provide guidance and instruction to child care and development contractors regarding the implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 321 (Chapter 903, Statutes of 2022), regarding prioritization of children from families whose primary home language is a language other than English for child care and development programs that use priority lists for enrollment. These programs include the California Alternative Payment Program (CAPP), Migrant Alternative Payment Program (CMAP), General Child Care and Development Program (CCTR), Migrant Child Care and Development programs (CMIG), Family Child Care Home Education Networks (CFCC), and Child Care and Development Programs for Children with Special Needs (CHAN).

To read the entire CCB document, click here.
 
Attention: Executive Directors and Program Directors of all California State Preschool Programs; Preschool
Language Information System (PLIS) Active Users 
 
The California Department of Education (CDE), Early Education
Division (EED) has released revised Management Bulletin (MB) 23-03, notifying and providing updated guidance to California State Preschool Program (CSPP) contractors regarding the requirements for identifying and collecting data on dual language learners, language characteristics of preschool programs and language composition of program staff. This MB is being revised to remove Attachment C and Attachment D and provide a link to the Preschool Language Information System (PLIS) Landing Page; all other guidance has remained the same. 
 
MB 23-03 revises and replaces MB 22-04(a). For ease in determining what has been
revised from MB 22-04, all new text can be seen in bold italic font with difference marking around the additions that reads <begin add> and <end add>. Any deletions can be found as bold italic font that is struck through, also with difference marking around the deletions that read <begin delete> and <end delete>. Any changes between MB 22-04 and MB 22-04(a) that were reflected in change formatting in MB 22-04(a) are now embedded within this MB. 
 
MB 23-03 can be accessed on the Management Bulletin 23-03 web page
Happening This Week, April 3rd-7th:

Tuesday, April 4th:
-CAPPA Weekly Connections Member Call. Email CAPPA for more information and to register.

Wednesday, April 5th:
-CAPPA Public Policy Meeting @ 2:00pm

Friday, April 7th:
-Child Welfare Policy Roundtable, 10:00am-11:30am. Learn more here.
CAPPA is committed to supporting our field with a coordinated calendar. Click here to see current calendar of events. If you have an event to add, email CAPPA and it will be added.
The Weekly Good
An uplifting way to start the week, for those of us who need a break from the chaos that is our lives.
During this time where we are all stressed, it would be great to celebrate the positive. Each week we will celebrate everyday heroes, inspiring movements and great things happening in our field. 
Valley Oak Children's Services held their Annual Children's Fair this past weekend. It was filled with local organizations and child care centers, games, children's activities, facepainting, and local entertainment.
April 2023 Monday Morning Update Sponsor
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HR Webinar on Telecommuting, Best Practices for Program Integrity (Fraud Prevention), Provider Reimbursements, Adults & Trauma, Enrollment

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CAPPA's 2022-23 Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Gina Fromer, Ph.D.
Children's Council of San Francisco 

VICE PRESIDENT
Karen Marlatt  
Valley Oak Children's Services 

SECRETARY
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno

TREASURER
Beth Clear
Child Care Resource Center

PAST PRESIDENT
Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates

PUBLIC POLICY CO- CHAIR
Leslie Reece
Family Resource & Referral Center

PUBLIC POLICY CO- CHAIR
Joie Owen
Glenn County Office of Education- Child and Family Services

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR
Jeanne Fridolfs
Napa County Office of Education

MEMBER AT LARGE
Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County 

MEMBER AT LARGE
Kendall Hirai
Crystal Stairs, Inc.

MEMBER AT LARGE
Dr. Ciriaco "Cid" Pinedo
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation 

MEMBER AT LARGE
Tina Barna 
Catalyst Community

MEMBER AT LARGE
Jessica Kranz
Go Kids, Inc.

MEMBER AT LARGE
Mike Michelon

MEMBER AT LARGE
Marco Jimenez
Central Valley Children's Services Network

MEMBER AT LARGE 
Tracey Strack
Child Action, Inc.

Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO

The representation of the CAPPA board spreads across all agency types and sizes, and represents voices from nearly every region in California 
DSS & CDE Updates

March 14, 2023
Allocations To Support Child Care Providers United (CCPU) Provider Deductions
March 14, 2023
Implementation Of Assembly Bill (AB) 321 (Chapter 903, Statutes Of 2022): Change In Child Care And Development Priority Order For Children From Families In Which The Primary Home Language Is A Language Other Than English
February 28, 2023
February 8, 2023
Implementation of Senate Bill (SB) 1047 (Chapter 923, Statutes of 2022) – Categorical Eligibility
January 10, 2023
Guidance On Family Child Care Home Liability Coverage Requirements
January 4, 2023
Child Care Providers United (CCPU) Requests For The Deduction Of Dues And Political Contributions From Family Child Care Provider Reimbursements
December 30, 2022
CCB 22-37: Implementation Of The Provision Of Senate Bill (SB) 1047 (Chapter 923, Statutes Of 2022) Pertaining To 24-Month Eligibility
December 16, 2022
Implementation Of Assembly Bill (AB) 210 (Chapter 62, Statutes Of 2022): Removal Of 2:1 Local Match Requirement
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